Faculty Committee for Divestment
Faculty Committee for Divestment
Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
Duration: Unknown, existed in March 1983 - Unknown
The Faculty Committee for Divestment was an anti-apartheid organization at Williams College. The Faculty Committee for Divestment campaigned in favor of divestment prior to vote by Williams faculty on whether Williams should continue to invest in companies that do business in South Africa or divest on April 30, 1983. The Faculty Committee for Divestment...
The Faculty Committee for Divestment was an anti-apartheid organization at Williams College. The Faculty Committee for Divestment campaigned in favor of divestment prior to vote by Williams faculty on whether Williams should continue to invest in companies that do business in South Africa or divest on April 30, 1983. The Faculty Committee for Divestment sponsored Dumisani Kumalo, Projects Director of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) on April 6, the second of three lectures hosted by the Faculty Committee for Divestment prior to the vote. Earlier in the year members of the Williams Anti-Apartheid Coalition, a student group, engaged in a hunger strike as part of a campaign for divestment. (Source: What have we gained? What can we do? The aftermath of the hunger strike and the future of a movement by Andrew Levin, available on this website; "Divestment: New 'conscience' for S. Africa, journalists says" by Ellen Goldberg, The Transcript, April 7, 1983; and "Exiled South African favors divestment, for peaceful change" by Gustav Neibuhr, Berkshire Eagle, April 7, 1983.)
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